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since he came to Missouri in r! 3gwi ' AA 1SS0, junior quarterback Kerry Se? 2e jVWSff
Holloway finally is making the aJj2SL Jara? Iffl I most of a chance to play. With WFWWSs I
Brad Perry and Warren Seitz aTfjSg Jmk I
sidelined with injuries, Hollo- - lPE g
way scored twice against the WJiSwfwi I No. 1 defense in Saturday's gaaSpK I
scrimmage. See Page IB. WSfSSBaa J
As a university student 13 sW$ Jlsh I
Rocheport didn't imagine he ra- -
would one day support his fam-- ffi$ BniS8P
does it because he loves the life WBaB& fflmUma
of a potter. Find out how he f? rag& iw& g
trade his potter's wheel and i I
kiln for a desk. See page 1C. BBffiBPqfflaJnvTf
Fatal Pressure BKHBH I
Bob Somers was described raK& lliHffiwt 1 1
as ' the rising star' of the Uni- - OBr ill versity's history department. i$ sE& mBfflM& 1 1
But pressures inherent in the ---
gF '
academic profession, problems Jb - 1
we all have and Somers' own Kf perfectionism drove him to sui- - JiljHEis- - ?
cide behind the wheel of his m .- '- 9
75th Year No. 297 Good Morning! It's Sunday, August 28, 1983 7 Sections 82 Pages 50 Cents
Miel Newstead, left and Jeynae Miller, Ashland, led Saturday's march through Douglass Park Mich.. iKod.. Phoio.
Rally unites Columbians, causes
" We need to deal with our problems
head on we need to have a heart cleans-ing.
And on the day when we have our
hearts cleansed, we all will have peace of
mind."
By Greg Hlit
Mlaaourtsn stall writar
More than 350 people took Rev. William
Rice's words to heart Saturday as they
marched in hopes of cleansing unemploy-ment,
nuclear weapons and discrimination
from today's society.
The march came on the 20th anniversary
of Rev. Martin Luther King's historic
march on Washington, D. C.
While more than 500,000 people gathered
in Washington, D. C, 350 local black and
white supporters of the New Coalition of
Conscience marched from downtown to
Douglass Park, where enthusiasm soared
as high as the midday heat.
ihe issues the New Coalition focuses on
are much broader than those highlighted
20 years ago. It supports a nuclear freeze
resolution, passage of the equal rights
amendment and a national holiday honor-ing
King. The group opposes International
Monetary Fund assistance to South Afnca.
The people who marched were as diver-se
as the issues they represented
State representatives Ken Jacobs and
Gary Sharp, both democrats, marched
with special interest groups such as the
Missouri Energy Action Committee, Nu-clear
Freeze Campaign, Central Missouri
Association for Community Action and
Central Missouri Labor Council.
" I've always respected King and what
he stood for," Sharp said. " Something like
this reiterates and defines the goals that he
set."
But the day did not belong to politicians.
It was to be a day belonging to the people
and the issues that concern them.
" This is an appropriate time to tie these
causes together," said John Schuder, as he
shifted the weight of his sign demanding a
nuclear weapons freeze. The New Coali-tion,
Schuder said, finds unity in the fulfil-lment
of King's dream.
" King saw the irony of having a peace
movement and not speaking out against
war. That's why he spoke out against the
war in Vietnam, and demanded the vio-lence
be stopped "
Behind Schuder, a group of predomi-nantly
black women underscored the unity
theme. As Schuder spoke out against nu-clear
proliferation, they sang " We shall
overcome," and chanted for equality.
" We still have to be reminded of the old
goals if we ever want to reach that moun-tain
top," said 22- year-- old Charles Jones, a
University student.
Both men said they bebeve that people
tend to forget the purpose and meaning of
a march like this.
Russ Breyfogle, 48, of 101 Heat-her
Lane and his five- year- ol- d
daughter Kathenne listen dur-ing
the civil rights ral'y.
Mlssourians
march, listen
in D. C. rally
By Nolan Clay
Washington bureau
WASHINGTON I, ate Saturda morning, Peyton Jor-dan
of Columbia scribbled a final line on her hand- writte- n
orange placaid and tied it around her neck with i
string she found on the littered Mall between the Capitol
and the Washington Monument
With instructions from entertainer Bill Cosby, she was
then ready to join seven other mid- Missouna- ns and more
than 500,000 other demonstrators in a march commem-orating
the one 20 ears ago led by the Rev Martin Lu-ther
King Jr
What followed was more of a shuffle than a march,
with numerous stops along the packed route toward the
Lincoln Memorial where King made his famous I have
a dream" speech in 1963 Conversation among the Mis- souna- ns
centered almost as much on the dangers of heat
stroke as the march's theme Jobs. Pea( e. Freedom
The slow pace and heat were onl some of the prob-lems
the six Columbians, and two Boonville women en-countered
during Saturday's March on Washington
Those problems, however, apparently failed to diminish
the enthusiasm of the marchers or their sense of accom-plishment
" I would do it again, despite tired legs and heat and
all," Ms Judan'aid
Most of the Missounans, led bv Columbia s fornci
Second Wnrd Councilman Harold Warr'n, walked with a
group that had come with them on the bs They
marched quietly, in sharp contrast to a nearby contin-gent
from Communications Workers of Amenra l'he
CWA grup repeatedly chanted anti- Reag- . n slogans in-cluding
" Ronald Reagan, he's no good Send rmn icK to
Hollywood "
This Missouri group got no closer to the I -- inc oln Memo
rial than the length of the Mall's Reflecting Pool, almost
half a mile Because of the distance from the stage, the
group caught only snatches of the afternoon speeches
over radios in the c rowd
The actual march lasted about an hour Hand fans with
a colored photo of King sold fast along the route for $ 1
and later went for $ 2 March buttons sold for from $ 1 to
$ 5. Refreshments were available along the route, but
unes were long Ms Jordan and Boonvilie resident Ger-trude
Pearson spent an hour and a half in one line before
being served
The heat forced the mid- Misso- uri group back to their
hotel by late afternoon, long before civd rights leader
Jesse Jackson or popular singer Stevie Wonder took the
stage They all said, however, they left the march
inspired and willing to do it again
Warren said he was impressed by the marchers' num-bers,
enthusiasm and their desire to make drastic
changes in Washington
" It's a great source of motivation to go back and work
on changes in local and state governments," he said
Worth Cox of Columbia, at 68 the oldest in the group,
called the march wonderful and a success because so
many people could agree that they wanted equal rights
and justice.
Sandra Gardner of Columbia said her participation
showed her support for the civil rights movement and
was an attempt to get Americans to recognue that civil
rights were being violated
" I'm an American," she said ' I'm a citizen I
shouldn't have to march for my rights "
By Bruce Maxwell
Mlaaourian stall writar
GLEN ELLYN, 111. The U. S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission says the Callaway
nuclear plant in Reform, Mo will function
safely when it begins operating in late 1984
or early 1S85.
But other government agencies, anti- nucle- ar
activists and many ofNRC's own em-ployees
claim there's no way of knowing for
sure; the agency's system for monitoring
construction at nuclear plants is inadequate
at best, they say.
The U. S. General Accounting Office, the
watchdog arm of Congress, has been partic-ularly
critical of NRC. In a report written in
1978 the same time that major construc-tion
problems were surfacing at Callaway
the GAO said NRC inspectors didn't know
enough about day- to- da- y activities at con-struction
sites and needed to examine actual
construction work themselves rather than
relying on company reports.
AGAOstudy indicated fiiat inspectors:
Did little independent testing of con-struction
work, relying instead on the build-er's
self-- evaluation.
- Spent little time observing construction
work.
And did not regularly interview con-struction
workers for Information about de-fective
construction.
" NEC inspectors do little actual obser-vation
or independent testing of the work
n? Sp GaBSaway Kff Controversy
0CaDKl7
performed at the site," the GAO concluded.
" This necessitates almost complete reliance
on the utility and its contractor to monitor
themselves and report on deviations from
acceptable standards ... Thus NRC's inspec-tion
program cannot independently assure
that nuclear power plants are constructed
adequately."
A report in the same year by the Union of
Concerned Scientists, one of the nation's
most respected anti- nucle- ar organizations,
came to the same conclusion.
" Federal inspectors devote little time to
inspecting reactor facilities directly, instead
focusing then efforts on auditing records
prepared by plant management, records
whose accuracy is essentially taken for
granted," a Union report said. " NRC's In-spection
philosophy amounts to this embar-rassing
formula: almost exclusive reliance
on assurances provided by the regulated in-dustry."
The GAO found that NRC inspectors spent
only about 22 percent of their official work
time 50 working days each year at con-struction
sites. Only 20 percent of that on- si- te
tune, about 10 working days a year, was
spent actually observing construction,
according to the GAO.
According to NRC records, inspectors
spent the equivalent of only 22 days at the
Callaway plant in 1976, the first year of con-struction.
Inspectors spent an equivalent of
92 days at the plant in 1977; 95 days in 1978; 80
days in 1979; 208 days in 1980; and 105 days in
1981.
Since NRC inspectors normally work in
teams of two or three, individual inspectors
weren't actually at the plant the number of
days indicated. No breakdown is available
on how much of the inspectors' time was
spent observing construction versus auditing
records.
Jan Strasma is public affairs officer for
the NRC's Region m office in Glen Ellyn.
El., which is responsible for Callaway. Stras-ma
says the amount of time inspectors spend
at plant sites has increased in the past seve-ral
years, in part as a result of a resident in-spector
program in which an inspector is
permanently assigned to a site.
" We are currently focusing a great deal
more attention at construction sites than we
did several years ago," Strasma says. An
impetus was the 1979 accident at Three Mile
Island, which occurred only six months after
the plant began operating.
t
Robert Pollard, a nuclear safety engineer
with the Union of Concerned Scientists in
Washington, D. C, says the technical exper-tise
of NRC inspectors is generally'quite high
but that inspectors are discouraged by their
supervisors from reporting too many prob-lems.
Pollard conducted design and safety re-views
of nuclear plants for the NRC for sev-en
years. At the time of his widely publicized
resignation in 1976, Pollard was responsible
for coordinating license reviews at seven nu-clear
plants.
Pollard's assertion is supported by a 1978
survey sponsored by the NRC of 535 employ-ees
in the NRC's Office of Inspection and En-forcement.
The survey revealed that six of
every 10 employees believed that their supe-riors
practiced a don't- rock- the- b- oat philoso-phy.
Less than half the inspectors said they re-spected
their supervisors.
James Konkmin, reactor inspection sec-tion
chief for the NRC's Region in, denies
that Region m supervisors discourage in-spectors
from reporting problems.
" I guess all we can say is that as far as we
know it doesn't happen here," he says.
The 1978 survey also indicated that " know-ing
the right people" was the way NRC em-ployees
got ahead.
Strasma says the enforcement climate has
changed since 1978 and has improved the
NRC staffs opinion of their Jobs.
" The NRC's enforcement posture is I think
stricter than it was five or six years ago,"
says Strasma. " There are more fines levied
and less tolerance for failing to meet the re-quirements."
Pollard says NRC inspectors still spend
too much time reviewing paperwork, they
also rely too heavily on documentation and
testing prepared by utilities and contractors
building nuclear power plants.
" Primarily it's the same as it's always
been," Pollard says. " NRC will agree with
you on that. Overall, their position has al-ways
been that they do an audit type of re-view,
that their inspectors spot- chec- k "
But even spot checks remain little more
than examinations of the records, he says, a
verification that welders have passed their
exams, that equipment has been tested, that
design changes requiring substitutions in
equipment have been reviewed by the util-ity's
safety assessment panel or at least that
there's a document indicating all these steps
have been taken.
" That's what it amounts to," says Pollard
Konkmin responds by explaining that
NRC's role is to audit the quality control pro-gram
of the utility and its contractors.
" The purpose of our inspection program is
not to guarantee that every minor deficiency
in the plant is caught," Konkmin said. " In a
large construction job, there are bound to be
some deficiencies that are not caught by any
of the levels of quality assurance. But there
I

New life IPEPBftff Admittedly a disappointment W"
since he came to Missouri in r! 3gwi ' AA 1SS0, junior quarterback Kerry Se? 2e jVWSff
Holloway finally is making the aJj2SL Jara? Iffl I most of a chance to play. With WFWWSs I
Brad Perry and Warren Seitz aTfjSg Jmk I
sidelined with injuries, Hollo- - lPE g
way scored twice against the WJiSwfwi I No. 1 defense in Saturday's gaaSpK I
scrimmage. See Page IB. WSfSSBaa J
As a university student 13 sW$ Jlsh I
Rocheport didn't imagine he ra- -
would one day support his fam-- ffi$ BniS8P
does it because he loves the life WBaB& fflmUma
of a potter. Find out how he f? rag& iw& g
trade his potter's wheel and i I
kiln for a desk. See page 1C. BBffiBPqfflaJnvTf
Fatal Pressure BKHBH I
Bob Somers was described raK& lliHffiwt 1 1
as ' the rising star' of the Uni- - OBr ill versity's history department. i$ sE& mBfflM& 1 1
But pressures inherent in the ---
gF '
academic profession, problems Jb - 1
we all have and Somers' own Kf perfectionism drove him to sui- - JiljHEis- - ?
cide behind the wheel of his m .- '- 9
75th Year No. 297 Good Morning! It's Sunday, August 28, 1983 7 Sections 82 Pages 50 Cents
Miel Newstead, left and Jeynae Miller, Ashland, led Saturday's march through Douglass Park Mich.. iKod.. Phoio.
Rally unites Columbians, causes
" We need to deal with our problems
head on we need to have a heart cleans-ing.
And on the day when we have our
hearts cleansed, we all will have peace of
mind."
By Greg Hlit
Mlaaourtsn stall writar
More than 350 people took Rev. William
Rice's words to heart Saturday as they
marched in hopes of cleansing unemploy-ment,
nuclear weapons and discrimination
from today's society.
The march came on the 20th anniversary
of Rev. Martin Luther King's historic
march on Washington, D. C.
While more than 500,000 people gathered
in Washington, D. C, 350 local black and
white supporters of the New Coalition of
Conscience marched from downtown to
Douglass Park, where enthusiasm soared
as high as the midday heat.
ihe issues the New Coalition focuses on
are much broader than those highlighted
20 years ago. It supports a nuclear freeze
resolution, passage of the equal rights
amendment and a national holiday honor-ing
King. The group opposes International
Monetary Fund assistance to South Afnca.
The people who marched were as diver-se
as the issues they represented
State representatives Ken Jacobs and
Gary Sharp, both democrats, marched
with special interest groups such as the
Missouri Energy Action Committee, Nu-clear
Freeze Campaign, Central Missouri
Association for Community Action and
Central Missouri Labor Council.
" I've always respected King and what
he stood for," Sharp said. " Something like
this reiterates and defines the goals that he
set."
But the day did not belong to politicians.
It was to be a day belonging to the people
and the issues that concern them.
" This is an appropriate time to tie these
causes together," said John Schuder, as he
shifted the weight of his sign demanding a
nuclear weapons freeze. The New Coali-tion,
Schuder said, finds unity in the fulfil-lment
of King's dream.
" King saw the irony of having a peace
movement and not speaking out against
war. That's why he spoke out against the
war in Vietnam, and demanded the vio-lence
be stopped "
Behind Schuder, a group of predomi-nantly
black women underscored the unity
theme. As Schuder spoke out against nu-clear
proliferation, they sang " We shall
overcome," and chanted for equality.
" We still have to be reminded of the old
goals if we ever want to reach that moun-tain
top," said 22- year-- old Charles Jones, a
University student.
Both men said they bebeve that people
tend to forget the purpose and meaning of
a march like this.
Russ Breyfogle, 48, of 101 Heat-her
Lane and his five- year- ol- d
daughter Kathenne listen dur-ing
the civil rights ral'y.
Mlssourians
march, listen
in D. C. rally
By Nolan Clay
Washington bureau
WASHINGTON I, ate Saturda morning, Peyton Jor-dan
of Columbia scribbled a final line on her hand- writte- n
orange placaid and tied it around her neck with i
string she found on the littered Mall between the Capitol
and the Washington Monument
With instructions from entertainer Bill Cosby, she was
then ready to join seven other mid- Missouna- ns and more
than 500,000 other demonstrators in a march commem-orating
the one 20 ears ago led by the Rev Martin Lu-ther
King Jr
What followed was more of a shuffle than a march,
with numerous stops along the packed route toward the
Lincoln Memorial where King made his famous I have
a dream" speech in 1963 Conversation among the Mis- souna- ns
centered almost as much on the dangers of heat
stroke as the march's theme Jobs. Pea( e. Freedom
The slow pace and heat were onl some of the prob-lems
the six Columbians, and two Boonville women en-countered
during Saturday's March on Washington
Those problems, however, apparently failed to diminish
the enthusiasm of the marchers or their sense of accom-plishment
" I would do it again, despite tired legs and heat and
all," Ms Judan'aid
Most of the Missounans, led bv Columbia s fornci
Second Wnrd Councilman Harold Warr'n, walked with a
group that had come with them on the bs They
marched quietly, in sharp contrast to a nearby contin-gent
from Communications Workers of Amenra l'he
CWA grup repeatedly chanted anti- Reag- . n slogans in-cluding
" Ronald Reagan, he's no good Send rmn icK to
Hollywood "
This Missouri group got no closer to the I -- inc oln Memo
rial than the length of the Mall's Reflecting Pool, almost
half a mile Because of the distance from the stage, the
group caught only snatches of the afternoon speeches
over radios in the c rowd
The actual march lasted about an hour Hand fans with
a colored photo of King sold fast along the route for $ 1
and later went for $ 2 March buttons sold for from $ 1 to
$ 5. Refreshments were available along the route, but
unes were long Ms Jordan and Boonvilie resident Ger-trude
Pearson spent an hour and a half in one line before
being served
The heat forced the mid- Misso- uri group back to their
hotel by late afternoon, long before civd rights leader
Jesse Jackson or popular singer Stevie Wonder took the
stage They all said, however, they left the march
inspired and willing to do it again
Warren said he was impressed by the marchers' num-bers,
enthusiasm and their desire to make drastic
changes in Washington
" It's a great source of motivation to go back and work
on changes in local and state governments," he said
Worth Cox of Columbia, at 68 the oldest in the group,
called the march wonderful and a success because so
many people could agree that they wanted equal rights
and justice.
Sandra Gardner of Columbia said her participation
showed her support for the civil rights movement and
was an attempt to get Americans to recognue that civil
rights were being violated
" I'm an American," she said ' I'm a citizen I
shouldn't have to march for my rights "
By Bruce Maxwell
Mlaaourian stall writar
GLEN ELLYN, 111. The U. S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission says the Callaway
nuclear plant in Reform, Mo will function
safely when it begins operating in late 1984
or early 1S85.
But other government agencies, anti- nucle- ar
activists and many ofNRC's own em-ployees
claim there's no way of knowing for
sure; the agency's system for monitoring
construction at nuclear plants is inadequate
at best, they say.
The U. S. General Accounting Office, the
watchdog arm of Congress, has been partic-ularly
critical of NRC. In a report written in
1978 the same time that major construc-tion
problems were surfacing at Callaway
the GAO said NRC inspectors didn't know
enough about day- to- da- y activities at con-struction
sites and needed to examine actual
construction work themselves rather than
relying on company reports.
AGAOstudy indicated fiiat inspectors:
Did little independent testing of con-struction
work, relying instead on the build-er's
self-- evaluation.
- Spent little time observing construction
work.
And did not regularly interview con-struction
workers for Information about de-fective
construction.
" NEC inspectors do little actual obser-vation
or independent testing of the work
n? Sp GaBSaway Kff Controversy
0CaDKl7
performed at the site," the GAO concluded.
" This necessitates almost complete reliance
on the utility and its contractor to monitor
themselves and report on deviations from
acceptable standards ... Thus NRC's inspec-tion
program cannot independently assure
that nuclear power plants are constructed
adequately."
A report in the same year by the Union of
Concerned Scientists, one of the nation's
most respected anti- nucle- ar organizations,
came to the same conclusion.
" Federal inspectors devote little time to
inspecting reactor facilities directly, instead
focusing then efforts on auditing records
prepared by plant management, records
whose accuracy is essentially taken for
granted," a Union report said. " NRC's In-spection
philosophy amounts to this embar-rassing
formula: almost exclusive reliance
on assurances provided by the regulated in-dustry."
The GAO found that NRC inspectors spent
only about 22 percent of their official work
time 50 working days each year at con-struction
sites. Only 20 percent of that on- si- te
tune, about 10 working days a year, was
spent actually observing construction,
according to the GAO.
According to NRC records, inspectors
spent the equivalent of only 22 days at the
Callaway plant in 1976, the first year of con-struction.
Inspectors spent an equivalent of
92 days at the plant in 1977; 95 days in 1978; 80
days in 1979; 208 days in 1980; and 105 days in
1981.
Since NRC inspectors normally work in
teams of two or three, individual inspectors
weren't actually at the plant the number of
days indicated. No breakdown is available
on how much of the inspectors' time was
spent observing construction versus auditing
records.
Jan Strasma is public affairs officer for
the NRC's Region m office in Glen Ellyn.
El., which is responsible for Callaway. Stras-ma
says the amount of time inspectors spend
at plant sites has increased in the past seve-ral
years, in part as a result of a resident in-spector
program in which an inspector is
permanently assigned to a site.
" We are currently focusing a great deal
more attention at construction sites than we
did several years ago," Strasma says. An
impetus was the 1979 accident at Three Mile
Island, which occurred only six months after
the plant began operating.
t
Robert Pollard, a nuclear safety engineer
with the Union of Concerned Scientists in
Washington, D. C, says the technical exper-tise
of NRC inspectors is generally'quite high
but that inspectors are discouraged by their
supervisors from reporting too many prob-lems.
Pollard conducted design and safety re-views
of nuclear plants for the NRC for sev-en
years. At the time of his widely publicized
resignation in 1976, Pollard was responsible
for coordinating license reviews at seven nu-clear
plants.
Pollard's assertion is supported by a 1978
survey sponsored by the NRC of 535 employ-ees
in the NRC's Office of Inspection and En-forcement.
The survey revealed that six of
every 10 employees believed that their supe-riors
practiced a don't- rock- the- b- oat philoso-phy.
Less than half the inspectors said they re-spected
their supervisors.
James Konkmin, reactor inspection sec-tion
chief for the NRC's Region in, denies
that Region m supervisors discourage in-spectors
from reporting problems.
" I guess all we can say is that as far as we
know it doesn't happen here," he says.
The 1978 survey also indicated that " know-ing
the right people" was the way NRC em-ployees
got ahead.
Strasma says the enforcement climate has
changed since 1978 and has improved the
NRC staffs opinion of their Jobs.
" The NRC's enforcement posture is I think
stricter than it was five or six years ago,"
says Strasma. " There are more fines levied
and less tolerance for failing to meet the re-quirements."
Pollard says NRC inspectors still spend
too much time reviewing paperwork, they
also rely too heavily on documentation and
testing prepared by utilities and contractors
building nuclear power plants.
" Primarily it's the same as it's always
been," Pollard says. " NRC will agree with
you on that. Overall, their position has al-ways
been that they do an audit type of re-view,
that their inspectors spot- chec- k "
But even spot checks remain little more
than examinations of the records, he says, a
verification that welders have passed their
exams, that equipment has been tested, that
design changes requiring substitutions in
equipment have been reviewed by the util-ity's
safety assessment panel or at least that
there's a document indicating all these steps
have been taken.
" That's what it amounts to," says Pollard
Konkmin responds by explaining that
NRC's role is to audit the quality control pro-gram
of the utility and its contractors.
" The purpose of our inspection program is
not to guarantee that every minor deficiency
in the plant is caught," Konkmin said. " In a
large construction job, there are bound to be
some deficiencies that are not caught by any
of the levels of quality assurance. But there
I